Don't ya love it when online records from which you think you've gleaned every possible tidbit of information get updated - but you don't know what the range of information they updated or added or corrected was? Does the updated record now include additional counties or cities? Does the updated record now include a different time span? Or was this just a general, miscellaneous, hodgepodge assortment of data additions/corrections? So if you don't know what the nature of the update was, the record that you've exhausted once already has to be scoured all over again, making it necessary for you to spend hours and hours re-checking names/dates.
Wouldn't it be nice if they would tell you exactly what the update was about so that you can target your subsequent search better?
OK, it was a little gripe. A little pet peeve. Got it off my chest. For now.
Welp, I subjected you to my little whine-fest because we had no volunteers for today's Open Thread, and this was the whiny thought I had as I was wondering what to throw together for a quick and dirty Open Thread Diary.
Last week, Ancestry updated their North Carolina marriage records. There was a lot of information added, so yes, I have been spending what very little spare time I have re-checking hundreds of names (literally) from my husband's line.
A few mysteries have been solved. For example, one great-aunt had disappeared off the radar screen completely, but now I find that she got married in 1912 and thus her surname changed. I know it really is her because the parents are named on the digitized license. Still can't find her death record, though. I think she may have died just before they started keeping death records in 1913. Or maybe they divorced. For certain, her husband remarried in 1917, so something had to have happened. Solving one mystery just to create another. (sigh)
But the most interesting bit of information disclosed by updated records is that my husband has, or had, a half-uncle that he previously knew nothing about. Apparently, grandpop Fab got the 7-year itch and was somewhere he warn't 'spose to be with someone he warn't 'spose to be with, and the result was a baby, William John.
William grew up and when he got married, he named Fab as his father on the license.
Ruh-roh.
I showed my hubby the record a couple of nights ago. Yeah, he was surprised to have another uncle, but didn't say much about it. He only grinned - "Oh, that Fab ....".
I wonder if grandmama knew.
Anyway, this is an Open Thread, so feel free to yak about whatever you want to yak about.